What is "freeholders"

Usage examples of "freeholders".

Clerics took little notice of Eagles, who were recruited from the children of stewards, freeholders, artisans, or merchants.

They have gotten more land under cultivation than any of the other freeholders in our valley.

The sheriff, often holding a hereditary post and fearing therefore no check to his despotism, added to the burden of the unhappy freeholders by a custom of summoning at his own fancy special courts, and laying heavy fines on those who did not attend them.

In the remotest regions of the country barons and knights and freeholders were called to aid in carrying out the law.

Count Lavastine would sacrifice a few slaves, even if they had once been honest freeholders, for the sake of taking Gent.

Overhall the rolling countryside, checkerboarded with newly plowed fields, and square woodlots, was pleasantly studded with stone farmhouses and sturdy frame barns, all surrounded by freestone fencesthe small Achievements of freeholders whose forefathers had combined a sweet soil, careful husbandry, and hard work to build moderate wealth on grains, cattle, pigs, cheese, butter, and draft horses.